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European postal operators take stock of Parliament’s improvements

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

12 European postal operators take stock of the European Parliament’s improvements brought to the proposal for a third postal directive.

The European Parliament has adopted, with a broad majority, amendments bringing significant changes to the initial proposal of the Commission.

Taking into consideration the great uncertainty of universal service financing and the risks of social dumping, the European Parliament has proposed substantial improvements on these two points and asks for the postponement of the date of realisation of the Internal Market in order to cope with them. The repeated reference to the economic role of universal postal services as well as to their contribution to the territorial and social cohesion is to be welcomed. It recalls one of the original objectives of the Community postal policy, thus balancing the liberalisation process.

However, the postal operators from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland and Slovakia want to stress that the postponement alone does not address the many legal, economic and technical questions which remain as acute as ever.

It is therefore extremely important to deepen the discussions on those points.

As a consequence, the signatories call the Council to follow the cautious approach adopted by the European Parliament and to enrich the directive proposal by addressing the remaining issues in order to properly manage the next liberalisation steps.

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The battle over postal services continued last week as SLP-CISL (Italy) hosted a high profile convention on the issue

Posted by | Jul 7, 2007 | |

Several hundred delegates cheered the words of SLP General Secretary Mario Petitto as he vowed to continue the fight against reckless liberalisation of one of Europe’s most treasured services. Among the speakers, including Poste Italiane representatives, parliamentarians and other stakeholders, was the Italian Minister for Communications, Paolo Gentiloni, who reported that the fight in the European Council was far from over as governments including his own and those of Spain, France, Belgium and Poland seek to curb the poorly considered, neoliberal overtures of the European Commission. Mr,. Gentiloni claimed that the legal uncertainty that would be created by the Commission’s new proposals on financing for the universal service obligation could threaten the guaranteed services currently afforded to all EU citizens.

Speaking on behalf of UNI, Sam Ironside explained the history behind the current debate, including the failure of stakeholders to prevent the concept of ever-greater liberalisation way back in 1994. Ironside called on all UNI affiliates to follow the excellent example of SLP in engaging their ministries ahead of the next Council discussions. He also challenged Italian and all affiliates to take the fight for terms and conditions in the sector to the front line – the new competitor companies and the integrators, such as DHL and TNT. This, he argued, was the only way to fight the constant pressure on salary levels throughout the sector.

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Italy govt plans to privatize post office in next few years

Posted by | Jun 28, 2007 | |

The Italian government plans to sell stakes in the Poste Italiane-run post office, and in publishing house Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato SpA in the next few years, the Radiocor wire agency reported, citing a draft copy of the government’s 2008-2011 economic and financial planning program (DPEF).

The DPEF, which sets the country’s medium-term objectives and the broad ways to achieve them, is due to be approved later today.

Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato is a publishing house for Italy’s official journal and other government publications as well as the country’s mint.

In the next few months, the sale on the stock exchange of a stake in Fincantieri is also expected, with 51 pct of the ship-yard staying in the hands of the state, Radiocor reported, citing the document.

The DPEF also includes plans to privatize state-ferry company Tirrenia.

The document also defines as strategic stakes in companies in the energy and defence sector.

The State still has stakes in Eni SpA and Enel SpA in the energy sector and in Finmeccanica SpA in the defence sector.

The document also confirms the State’s plan to continue to sell real estate.

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Italy government plans to privatize post office in next few years

Posted by | Jun 28, 2007 | |

The Italian government plans to sell stakes in the Poste Italiane-run post office, and in Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato SpA in the next few years, the Radiocor wire agency reported, citing a draft copy of the government’s 2008-2011 economic and financial planning program (DPEF).

The DPEF, which sets the country’s medium-term objectives and the broad ways to achieve them, is due to be approved later today.

Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato is a publishing house for Italy’s official journal and other government publications as well as the country’s mint.

In the next few months, the sale on the stock exchange of a stake in Fincantieri is also expected, with 51 pct of the ship-yard staying in the hands of the state, Radiocor reported, citing the document.

The DPEF also includes plans to privatize state-ferry company Tirrenia.

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Poste Italiane: Minister Gentiloni establishes new minimum working standards of post offices in summer

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

The Minister for Communications, Paolo Gentiloni, showed the ministerial decree endorsed by him, establishing new minimum working criteria post offices will be obliged to respect in summer.
This decree states criteria avoiding to Poste Italiane to work short time or, even, not to work at all because of the total closure of its post offices. For this current summer they will recourse to provisional criteria.
Poste Italiane ever made recourse to daily or hourly reductions in working timetable either to cope with rotating shifts due to staff holidays or for a reduction in daily work at post offices desks. This produced great worry in people of those municipalities concerned in closure, mayors and prefects of the involved area. So much so that, last summer many mayors of little municipalities ( sometimes with a little post office ), while expressing the disconfort due to these reductions, demanded, as everybody’s concern, more guarantees concerning the execution of tasks.
In consideration of this, the Ministry of Communications, in joined agreement with Poste Italiane, issued a 2007 plan to better guarantee users in defining minimum working standards to vouch for the service mostly in municipalities with 5000 people or less or, at any case, to avoid every modification in timetable under 18 hours a week.
The ministerial decree introduces the summer Opening Plan to be transmitted to the Ministry of Communications within 30 April of every year for the timespan 15 June – 15 September. If the Plan, submitted to the Ministry of Communications exam, is deemed compatible with standards defined in art. 12, it will be forwarded to both CNCU (National Council of Consumers and Users) and ANCI (National Association Italian Municipalities) in order to receive relevant, non binding opinions.

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